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longgonegulch:

Its been a while since we made a new pose sheet. Here’s Pinchley, the Gulch’s own cactus man!  Once an inanimate “Cactus-O-Lantern” for Halloween, he was brought to life with desert magic.  Pinchley is a ball of prickley positive energy.  He wants to be friends with everyone, but not everyone wants to be friends with him, especially an overly hyperactive and very touchy cactus.  Pinchley’s “no boundaries” good vibes often get him in trouble and even beaten up. But no worries, this cactus man is usually indestructible and can easily regenerate back to normal. 

Stay tuned for the Squatch and BW pose sheets next.

I’m pretty stoked for the new phase for obvious reasons. Have a doodle of the recently revealed Noodle.

longgonegulch:

UPDATE TIME!

We’ve been getting a plethora of emails and messages lately from fans and supporters of our show. We’re thrilled people are so excited to see what we do with these characters. The amount of support, artwork and comments have been just wonderful.  

We really want to make this for you guys and even though we’ve had so much support the momentum of our campaign has died down and it is taking a tad longer than expected. We can’t start production until we receive more funds. We’re restricted with the ideas we have and it’s very hard to keep everything secret. It’s a big world and we’ll need a lot of help creating it.

Our goal is to leave Gofundme and recreate a second chance campaign on a new site. We know multiple people were having issues donating on the current campaign. This is a learning experience and as we continue forward we’re learning what we can do better for the project and for the donators.

We’d like to use the $5,000 we’ve raised so far to hire our writers, board artists and some of the voices for the pilot. We’d finalize the script and create an animatic. That way, we can show you guys new content and move a little forward with development before making our goal. We’d record the pilot as well as some scratch for mini shorts we’d love to post online. Introducing the characters in a whole new light (with VOICES) seems like the way to go.  Once we go through our wish list of voice actors we will make an update if we need anyone for voice work here on our Tumblr page. We get a lot of messages asking but please wait to ask about it once we get to that step.

And we know what you’re thinking-Don’t worry! Whoever has already donated on Gofundme will still get their rewards! Though, if you wanted to donate more on the other campaign for new rewards feel free and we’d add them on.

Since you, the fans, are funding our project and so many of you have given us suggestions through messages, we’d like to open our ask box in hopes that YOU answer the following questions…

1. Which crowdfunding site would you feel most comfortable donating to?
We definitely want to take another stab at crowdfunding the project.  Indiegogo or Kickstarter? Which one and why? Maybe a different site?

2. What would make you donate?
What rewards not already listed on our Gofundme would you like to see? T-shirts? Toys? Special exclusive items? Anything else?

3. Would throwing a few contests or giveaways sound cool for the campaign?
If so, any suggestions?

4. What else would you like to see on our Tumblr page?
We both currently have full time jobs in the animation industry and all the content we make for the site is done in our spare time but we’d love to know what else you’d want to see. We have a few things in mind but let us know!

Donations are truly appreciated and all the money will be used wisely. We have a list of talented people we know who are ready to work. We just want to make sure they’re paid decently and fairly. We’re looking forward to announcing who’s on board as time goes on. If you can’t donate but want to help you still spread the word through likes, reblogs, fanart, and even word of mouth.  That helps us out more than you think and means the world to us.  Its our dream to make Long Gone Gulch into a real thing, and we can only do it with your help.

Thanks for stickin’ with us!

Tara and Zach